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While Itliong began his organizing efforts shortly after he arrived in America, participating in walkouts and fighting for fair labor contracts, he was best known for the Delano grape strike of ...
Preceding the Delano grape strike was another grape strike organized by Filipino farm workers that occurred in Coachella Valley, California on May 3, 1965. [14] [15] Because the majority of strikers were over 50 years old and did not have families of their own due to anti-miscegenation laws (first overthrown in 1949), they were willing to risk what little they had to fight for higher wages.
Modesto "Larry" Dulay Itliong (October 25, 1913 – February 1977 [a]), also known as "Seven Fingers", [3] was a Filipino-American union organizer.He organized West Coast agricultural workers starting in the 1930s, and rose to national prominence in 1965, when he, Philip Vera Cruz, Benjamin Gines and Pete Velasco, walked off the farms of area table-grape growers, demanding wages equal to the ...
Fabros and Historian Alex Edillor spoke on how Filipino migrants began the grape strikes of the 1960s for better working conditions. Larry Itliong organized the Filipino migrant workers into the organization Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) and started the Delano Grape Strike of 1965. [25]
He was one of the architects of the famous Delano grape strike.Transmission Reference: REC1306211700257239 Itliong was born in the Philippines in 1913 as Modesto "Larry" Dulay Itliong. He ...
The United Farm Workers of America, or more commonly just United Farm Workers (UFW), is a labor union for farmworkers in the United States. It originated from the merger of two workers' rights organizations, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) led by César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, and Gilbert Padilla and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) led by organizer Larry Itliong.
The troop "was established in 1965 during the Delano grape strike." [3] Teatro Campesino's early performances drew on varied traditions, such as commedia dell'arte, Spanish religious dramas adapted for teaching Mission Indians, Mexican folk humor, a century-old tradition of Mexican performances in California, and Aztec and Maya sacred ritual ...
One song that Huerta remembers fondly is “Huelga en General” (“The General Strike”), which was written by Luis Valdez and became popular during the Delano grape strike in 1965.